Auto-Extracting Text

Single-Column Name-To-Tag Extractions -

Name-to-tag extractions are performed using the upper section of the Editor's Multi-tag Popup menu, shown above. The process operates only on selected rows, and upon the specific column right-clicked to produce the popup. In the example above, rows 1, 2, and 4 have been selected and are highlighted, so these are the only rows that will be operated upon. The Artist column has been right-clicked, which causes its column header to become highlighted. The Artist field in files 1, 2, and 4 will receive data from an extraction.

Extractions in Tag Clinic are based on the idea that any file name can be perceived as if it were composed of a series of "text blocks" isolated from each other by some type of "separator." For example, consider the following file name:

Big Daddy - Eye of the Tiger.mp3

A simple way to view this filename is to envision it composed of two blocks of text, "Big Daddy " and " Eye of the Tiger," with each block isolated from the other by a hyphen. The hyphen, then, is the "Separator." In Tag Clinic, a Separator can be chosen to be a hyphen, a comma, a period, a space, and others. Thus, the filename above could also be viewed as being composed of seven blocks of text, with each block isolated from its neighbors by a "space" character.

To create tag data from filenames or path names, you first choose an appropriate Separator, select the rows you want to extract data into, right-click on the column you want to extract into, and choose from the popup which occurrence of a Separator you want extraction to begin. You can also choose where you want it to end - see Extract to below. The choice of Separator to use can be specified at several locations throughout the program: via the popup menu's "Separator" section itself (see below), the Main Menu's "Separator" section.